Eric Allie for May 01, 2024

Good one, Mr. Allie!

It is, and always has been conservatism that eats away and stifles education.

Is Eric Allie advocating for a regressive education? Confusing cartoon here.

nothin confusing about intellectually and ETHICALLY bankrupt. peace out

The antonym of progressive is regressive

So let’s shut down the colleges and universities. Problem solved eh Allie?

Back a few decades, there was a slogan “college is America’s best friend” in a PSA urging people to “give to the college of your choice”.

When did the right decide that college is America’s worst enemy?

Yeah, after all, colleges are places wealthy young people go to learn practical skills (and not that silly liberal arts stuff) so they will become rubber-stamp obedient citizens who will always shut up , do what they are told, and make babies for the hive.

“What better way to get rid of ‘Undesirables’ than to saddle them with debt and make education a luxury?”

- Ronald Reagan

William F. Buckley Jr. criticized Yale back in the ‘50s for leftism and indoctrinating. If course, Yale had no blacks or women when he went there. Before that, the teaching of evolution had many conservatives denouncing college. “College egghead”, “College boy, eh?” Then we have the concept of snobbery in that many people believe that the College educated and especially professors look down on everyone else. From this perspective, we see how fear of change and anger have produced the motivation for disparaging college. We also see the absurdity.

I guess we need to put DeSantis in charge of education, rigtht, Allie?

There is no way of knowing what we have lost with our policy of not giving every person their best opportunity to achieve whatever they can. It is detrimental to the entire human race, not just to the individual. And, it isn’t just that the mind that could have discovered the cure for cancer could have been born in poverty and never learned to read.

The average college graduate pays more in federal taxes very year of their working life than the average high school graduate. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, and public schools were free, those additional taxes would pay for the cost of college, with a net gain for total income taxes paid. THE REST OF US WOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES, IN FACT THE NET EFFECT WOULD BE A TAX PLUS. This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, and that more students would complete high school if they could see it as the way to a good job. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes, social security and Medicare.

The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all public higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free There is no better way to spend money than, to give our people every opportunity to be the best they can be. Yes, It’s good for them individually, but the country is made up of individuals, so what’s good for one is good for the country

There is still hope, as not all university students are leftist lunatics like we’ve seen past few weeks. I had one graduate last year with an engineering degree and now has a good job.

Dámn liberal arts!

Right on point, Eric! The slow erosion of education by the Progressives have left our youth dumb and disoriented, unable to function in real life. The only solution I see is a return to the good old days of MAGA tradition.

A bookworm is someone who loves to read.

Lots of countries have free college because they want their citizens to progress.

The average American with a bachelor’s degree earns about $80,500 per year, while the average American with only a high school diploma earns about $40,000 per year. College graduates earn more than double on average than those without a degree.

Ignorance is not bliss! It does lead to poor decision making. Like voting for a con-man, sex offender and career criminal!

It’s obvious that MAGA freaks have abandoned the axiom of “Knowledge is Power” to enthusiastically embrace “Ignorance is Bliss”.

Ettu, Eric?

The U.S. higher education system is always ranked the best in the world. Critics like this are easy to write off.

weak thinking, weak comic…

People complain that the U.S. – who used to lead in science and manufacturing – now lags behind countries like China… but those same people love to demonize the institutions and instructors who help nurture future scientists and businessmen…

We have enough baggers at Walmart and baristas in Starbucks to start an army of college educated warriors. Let’s send them and our illegal aliens to Ukraine and Gaza to fight for loan forgiveness and citizenship. An honorable trade-off.

Higher Miseducation or Higher Indoctrination.

What we need is for colleges to be more like they were, teaching, more than knowledge, a little wisdom. Some Bible study and traditional American Values would help.

He believes in hire education.

Just enough to get a job and serve our overlords without question of why they get paid more than they could ever spend while we get our social security taken away and live in fear of a major medical issue that will bankrupt anyone not in the .01%

We have pretty much followed the same play book they did in the 60’s. So, I guess the next thing is to start closing all these schools down. The institution at its finest.

The opposite of progressive is regressive, like your comics.

I don’t know if it was the Left or the Right that contributed more to gutting the educational system and turning it into a mechanism for turning out mindless cogs for the wheels of commerce. Political discourse is meaningless without some comprehension of language/rhetoric. Ideology is pointless without some basis in philosophy. Understanding of the issues is rooted in history. The problem is not the bits of fluff added to appease one faction or another, it’s all the stuff that was removed because “we don’t really need all that”.